Baroness Warsi announced on X that she had resigned from the Conservative whip over claims of 'hypocrisy and double standards'.

The former cabinet minister Sayeeda Warsi has quit the Conservatives, saying the party has moved too far to the right.

Britain’s first Muslim Cabinet minister quit the Tories on Thursday night after the party launched an investigation into “divisive” comments. Baroness Warsi, who sits in the Lords, said she was leaving because the party had moved to the “far Right”.

Former Tory chair Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has quit the Conservatives in a furious row just as the party is preparing to gather for a crucial conference on its future in Birmingham. The Muslim peer was brought in as chair by David Cameron in 2010 to help detoxify the party’s brand and bring it into the 21st century.

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has resigned from the Conservative party after claiming the Tories have become too ‘far-right’. The former co-chairwoman of the Tories, who previously served in David Cameron’s cabinet, was Britain’s first Muslim minister until she quit the government in 2014.

Warsi, a British lawyer and member of the House of Lords, whose grandfather emigrated to the UK from Pakistan, has been criticising the Conservative Party over its rhetoric on asylum seekers. “I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current Party are far removed from the Party I joined and served in Cabinet,” she wrote on X.

Baroness Warsi announced on X that she had resigned from the Conservative whip over claims of "hypocrisy and double standards". | ITV National News

Lady Warsi, who served in the cabinet during David Cameron’s premiership, said the party no longer resembled the one she represented in government